Rotating Core: Life Around an Axis

In the center of a square small residence stands a rotatable cylindrical core, approximately 1800mm in diameter and extending to the ceiling. The four faces of the core are: a TV wall, a bookshelf, a wardrobe, and an embedded single bed. Rotating the core switches the entire room's function, while the surrounding area remains completely clear. The core's exterior is curved birch plywood, with a 10mm circular groove left at the floor and ceiling for the rotation axis. The surrounding walls are white, and the floor is gray self-leveling concrete. The image shows the bookshelf face oriented towards the camera, with a movable low stool placed nearby.
Avoid: making the core square, placing fixed furniture around the perimeter, adding partition walls, using dark materials for the core surface.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

方正的小住宅正中央立著一個可旋轉的圓柱形核心,直徑約 1800mm,高度到天花。核心的四個面分別是:電視牆、書架、衣櫃、以及一個嵌入的單人床。轉動核心就切換整個房間的用途,而周邊完全淨空。核心外皮是弧形的樺木夾板,轉軸的縫隙在地坪與天花各留一道 10mm 的圓形溝。周邊牆面是白色,地坪是灰色自流平。畫面呈現書架面朝向鏡頭的狀態,旁邊擺一張可移動的矮凳。避免:核心做成方形、周邊擺放固定家具、加入隔間牆、核心表面使用深色材質。